PROGRAM
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC
STATES
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY
Westin Hotel,
Princeton, New Jersey
October 9-11, 2008
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PROGRAM |
| Thursday, October 9 | Friday, October 10 | Saturday, October 11 |
Program Committee
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University
Nathan Costa, Saint Andrew's School, CAAS Regional Representative for Delaware
Phyllis Culham, United States Naval Academy, CAAS Second Vice President
Helen Cullyer, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York
Barbara K. Gold, Hamilton College, CAAS Past President
Nicolas Gross, University of Delaware, CAAS Past President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS Past President and Program Coordinator
W. Gerald Heverly, New York University, CAAS Archivist
Diana Jensen, The Maret School, CAAS Regional Representative for the District of Columbia
William Klingshirn, The Catholic University of America, CAAS Past President
Maria S. Marsilio, Saint Joseph's University
Janet M. Martin, Princeton University
Barbara F. McManus, The College of New Rochelle, CAAS Past President and Webmaster
David Murphy, The Nightingale-Bamford School, CAAS First Vice President
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University, CAAS Secretary
John H. Starks, Jr., Binghamton University, CAAS Regional Representative for Central and Western New York
Karin Suzadail, Owen J. Roberts High School, CAAS Regional Representative for Central Pennsylvania
Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 9,
2008
| 4:00-5:30 PM | Meeting of the 2008 Finance Committee |
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Dinner Meeting of the 2008 Executive Committee |
| 7:00-8:00 PM | Packet pick-up for preregistrants (Fountain View Room). Vendors may set up displays. Snacks available to vendors and preregistrants. |
| 8:00-10:00 PM (Middlesex Room) |
Meeting of the 2008 CAAS Board of Directors |
| 8:00-10:00 PM | Panel
A: Teaching with Films about Classical Antiquity: A Roundtable
Discussion, Maria Marsilio (Saint Joseph's University)
presiding Discussants: Caroline Eades (University of Maryland, College Park); Nicolas Gross (University of Delaware); Alison Williams Lewin (Saint Joseph's University); Janet M. Martin (Princeton University). |
| 8:00 AM-6:00 PM | Registration (outside Fountain View Room) |
| 8:00 AM-6:00 PM | Book Display (Fountain View Room) |
| 8:00 AM-6:00 PM | APA Classical Comics Display: The winning artists and honorable mention entries of the American Philological Association's 2008 Comics Contest are displayed on ten large posterboards, and are traveling across the country. The theme for the artwork, inspired by the statue of Ceres that crowns the Chicago Board of Trade Building, focuses on the Ceres/Proserpina myth. The artwork is exhibited in three categories: K-7th grade; 8th-12th grade; and Adult. The Classical Association of the Atlantic States is one of the generous sponsors of this exhibit, thanks to an outreach programming grant (see http://apacomics2008.blogspot.com for more details). |
| 8:30-10:00 AM (Somerset Room) |
Paper
Session A: The Dawn of Greek Poetry Frederick J. Booth (Seton Hall University) and Nicolas Gross (University of Delaware) presiding Rig Veda X and Odyssey VI: Liberality in Hindu and Greek Poetry Paul Properzio (Boston Latin Academy) Epic Structures in Hesiod's Primal Narrative, Theogony 104-232 E.F. Beall (Washington, DC) Stephanus' Abecedarian Ambiguity: Issues of Authorship and Its Place in Homeric Scholarship Scott Sobolewski (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) |
| 8:30-10:00 AM (Mercer Room) |
Paper
Session B: Gendering Ancient History Phyllis Culham (United States Naval Academy, CAAS Second Vice President) and Diana Jensen (The Maret School) presiding Dude Looks Like a Lady: Cross-Dressing Politicians and the Power of the Goddess Valentina De Nardis (Villanova University) Lysioidia: Transgendered Actresses/Actors in Hellenistic Theater John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York) A Christian Concubine in Commodus' Court Anise K. Strong (Stanford University) |
| 8:30-10:00
AM (Middlesex Room) |
Paper
Session C: Gendering Classical Reception Janet M. Martin (Princeton University) and Karin Suzadail (Owen J. Roberts High School) presiding Rethinking the Maids: Teaching Homer's Odyssey with Atwood's Penelopiad Rebecca Kennedy (Union College) Cleopatra for Girls: Nineteenth-Century Biographies and the Female Ideal Prudence Jones (Montclair State University) Lars and the Real Girl and the Pygmalion Myth Jean Alvares (Montclair State University) |
| 10:00-10:30 AM (Fountain View Room) |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM-12:00
noon (Somerset Room) |
Panel
B: Assessment and Undergraduate Classics Programs at Public
Universities Janet Gross presiding Panelists: Paul Harvey (The Pennsylvania State University); Hugh M. Lee (University of Maryland, College Park); Luis Pedraja (Vice-President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education); Sarolta Takács (Rutgers University, CAAS Regional Representative for Central New Jersey) |
| 10:30 AM-12:00
noon (Mercer Room) |
Paper
Session D: Celebration and Sorrow in Greek Literary Texts Nathan Costa (Saint Andrew's School) and Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College) presiding Regimes of Language and the Oral Composition of Pindar's Victory Songs James Bradley Wells (Hamilton College) Lament in Sappho's Poetry Ann Suter (University of Rhode Island) Comic “Patriotism” in Times of War: Aristophanes' Acharnians Lewis Trelawny-Cassity (Binghamton University, State University of New York) |
| 10:30 AM-12:00
noon (Middlesex Room) |
Paper
Session E: Greek and Roman Images Janet M. Martin (Princeton University) and John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York) presiding Seneca's Imago Gregory Staley (University of Maryland, College Park) Depictions of Architecture on the Column of Trajan Elizabeth Thill (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Implied Aquatic Chariots: An Image from Longus' Daphnis and Chloe Raymond Capra (Seton Hall University) |
| 12:00-1:30 PM (Nassau Room) |
Luncheon Buffet: First Vice President David Murphy
presiding Ovatio honoring Lee T. Pearcy (The Episcopal Academy), CAAS Past President, presented by Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College) Ovatio honoring Larissa Bonfante (New York University), presented by Mervin Dilts (New York University) Tribute to the late Robert Fagles of Princeton University, presented by Sandra Bermann (Princeton University) and Chris Ann Matteo (Stone Bridge High School) |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Mercer Room) |
Panel
C: Honoring the Scholarship of Professor Helen H. Bacon Barbara Pavlock (Lehigh University) presiding Reading the Seven, Writing the Seven: the Bacon/Hecht Version and the Translation History of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes Deborah Roberts (Haverford College) Stasimon and Paroxysm in Sophocles' Philoctetes Seth Schein (University of California, Davis; paper was read by Nancy Felson) Competing Mentors for Antilochus at the Funeral Games and Neoptolemus on Lemnos Nancy Felson (University of Georgia) The Role of Cicero in the Aeneid’s “Drama of Election” Barbara Pavlock |
| 1:30-3:30 PM (Middlesex Room) |
Paper
Session F: Dimensions of Latin Literature in Time and Space W. Gerald Heverly (New York University) and David Murphy (The Nightingale-Bamford School, CAAS First Vice President) presiding Kou'k etheloisa—“Even Against Her Will.” A Portrayal of the Latin Sappho Tommaso Gazzarri (Yale University) A Vergilian Simile in Silius Italicus, Punica 7.253-259 John Jacobs (Seton Hall University) Lucan's Campus Martius and the Reciprocity of Space Marian Makins (University of Pennsylvania) Catullan Echoes in Renaissance Polish Latin Poetry Frederick J. Booth (Seton Hall University) |
| 3:30-4:00 PM (Fountain View Room) |
Coffee Break |
| 4:00-5:30 PM (Mercer Room) |
Paper
Session G: Greek Poetry and Its Reception. In Honor of Helen H.
Bacon Barbara Pavlock (Lehigh University) presiding Thought and Action in the Opening Stasimon of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Thomas Soule (Washington Latin School; paper was read by Frank Romer) Liminal Space and the Alkestis of Euripides Frank Romer (East Carolina University) A Jury of Furies: Twelve Angry Men and the Eumenides Marianthe Colakis (Townsend Harris High School; paper was read by Barbara Pavlock) |
| 4:00-5:30 PM (Middlesex Room) |
Paper
Session H: Sexualities, Class, and Religion in Classical
Reception Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park) and John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York) presiding Homosexuals in Antiquity 2.0—The Next Generation Michael Broder (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Moses Finley and Karl Marx, 1936-1986 Daniel Tompkins (Temple University) Identity Crisis: the Jewishness of Moses I. Finley and Arnaldo Momigliano Jennifer L. Muslin (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) |
| 6:00-7:30 PM (Nassau Room) |
Cash Bar with Buffet Dinner: |
| 7:30 PM | Buses leave for Princeton University |
| 8:00 PM (Princeton University Library) |
Tour
and Reception: Don Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts will speak about “The Greek Book” Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, will speak about “The Mint of Antioch” |
| 8:00 AM-12:00 noon | Registration (outside Fountain View Room) |
| 8:00 AM-3:00 PM | Book Display (Fountain View Room) |
| 8:00 AM-3:00 PM | APA Classical Comics Display: The winning artists and honorable mention entries of the American Philological Association's 2008 Comics Contest are displayed on ten large posterboards, and are traveling across the country. The theme for the artwork, inspired by the statue of Ceres that crowns the Chicago Board of Trade Building, focuses on the Ceres/Proserpina myth. The artwork is exhibited in three categories: K-7th grade; 8th-12th grade; and Adult. The Classical Association of the Atlantic States is one of the generous sponsors of this exhibit, thanks to an outreach programming grant (see http://apacomics2008.blogspot.com for more details). |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Mercer Room) |
Panel
D: Workshop on Integrating the Blackwell Companion to Catullus
into Secondary and College Classrooms Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park) and Lee T. Pearcy (The Episcopal Academy) presiding Facilitators: Henry Bender (The Hill School/College of the Holy Cross), Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University), Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College),Vassiliki Panoussi (College of William and Mary), Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona), Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College). This limited registration workshop will consider strategies for integrating various chapters from A Companion to Catullus, published by Blackwell in 2007 and edited by Marilyn B. Skinner, into secondary and college level Catullus classrooms. We welcome the participation of both secondary and college faculty and classics graduate students who would like to learn more about this valuable resource, particularly experienced Latin Advanced Placement teachers and specialists in the literature of the late Roman republic. Those wishing to participate are requested to contact Judith P. Hallett, jeph@umd.edu, by September 28. |
| 8:30-10:30 AM (Somerset Room) |
Panel
E: Digital Texts, Online Collaboration and the Latin Classroom:
Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women Ann R. Raia, (The College of New Rochelle, CAAS President) presiding Introduction Ann R. Raia Sacris Rite Paratis: Women's Responsibilities in Household Rituals Judith L. Sebesta (University of South Dakota; paper was read by Ann Raia) An Illuminated Text/Commentary to Stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses Donald Connor (Trinity School) Contributing to Companion: The Wedding of Scholarship and Pedagogy Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph's University) Assessing Companion: From Undergraduate to High School Teacher Elizabeth McCauley (Saint Joseph's University; Merion Mercy Academy) |
| 8:30-9:00 AM (Middlesex Room) |
Business Meeting of the New Jersey Classical Association |
| 9:00-10:30
AM (Middlesex Room) |
Meeting of the New Jersey Classical
Association: Teaching Greek in the High Schools Panelists: Dan Jackson (Point Pleasant High School), Brian King (Ocean City High School), Raymond Pietrucha. (South Brunswick High School) |
| 10:30-11:00 AM (Fountain View Room) |
Coffee Break . |
| 11:00 AM-12:30
PM (Mercer Room) |
Panel F: Forum on the Future of the Advanced Placement Latin
Examination W. Gerald Heverly (New York University) and William Klingshirn (The Catholic University of America) presiding Discussants: Sherwin Little (Indian Hill High School, President, American Classical League); Lee T. Pearcy (The Episcopal Academy, Vice-President for Education, American Philological Association) |
| 11:00 AM-12:30
PM (Somerset Room) |
Paper Session I: New Developments in Latin Pedagogy Phyllis Culham (United States Naval Academy, CAAS Second Vice President) and Helen Cullyer (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York) presiding Anansi Tigridem Ligavit: Using Folk Tales in the Latin Classroom Jason Albaugh (Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School) Latin Learning at The Brooklyn Latin School Jason Griffiths, Jonathan Yee, and Anthony Stromoski (The Brooklyn Latin School) Building Blocks: Approaching Latin through an Understanding of Language Structure Deborah Lemieur (Saint Joseph's University) |
| 11:00 AM-12:30
PM (Middlesex Room) |
Meeting of the New Jersey Classical
Association Featured Speaker: John Van Hook (Randolph High School), “Ancient Forms of Writing” |
| 12:30-2:30 PM (Nassau Room) |
Buffet
Luncheon and CAAS Business Meeting: CAAS President Ann R. Raia
presiding Business Meeting: Vote on amended Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws; Election of officers Speaker: Carol Gilligan (New York University), “Kyra and The Deepening Darkness: A Feminist Fiction Writer and Thinker Looks to the Classics” |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Mercer Room) |
Panel
G: Petronius’ Satyrica: Analysis and Analogy Marsha McCoy presiding Crudus/Coctus: Towards a Semiotics of Petronius’ Satyrica Gregson Davis (Duke University) Fortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona) False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting Gallery Episode in the Satyrica Mike Lippman (Eckerd College) Reading Plato in Gatsby: The Great Gatsby, Trimalchio, and Platonic Origins Marsha McCoy |
| 2:30-4:30 PM (Middlesex Room) |
Paper
Session J: Scholarship on the Horizon: Undergraduate Research in
Classical Studies Ann Raia (The College of New Rochelle) and Karin Suzadail (Owen J. Roberts High School) presiding The Polymorphous Herodotus: An Interpretation of Nomos in the Histories Jeffrey Ulrich (Rutgers University): Emily M. Allen, Professor The Lawgiver in Ephorus’ Histories Christopher Blankenship (Dartmouth College): Paul Christesen, Professor Domina in Catullus and Roman Elegy: Beyond Servitium Amoris Aaron Hershkovitz (University of Maryland, College Park): Judith P Hallett, Professor Meretrix Regina and Matrona Pudica: Cleopatra VII's Influence on the Portrayal of Livia Midshipman 1/C Stefanie Peskosky (United States Naval Academy): Phyllis Culham, Professor Jesuit Latin Drama: Stratocles, or War Caitlin Engler and Nathan Zawie (Loyola College in Maryland): Thomas D.McCreight, Professor |
| 4:30-6:30 PM (Village Square) |
Meeting of the 2009 CAAS Board of Directors |